Bio

Jo is a Ōtautahi /Christchurch based comedian, improviser and actor.  By day she works as a psychiatrist, author and film producer.

Previous career highlights include being a Canterbury 3ZB cheerleader last century and being typecast on stage and screen as everyone’s neurotic mother.  Comedy provides welcome relief from peri-menopausal mood swings and the tortures of parenting teenagers. 

Jo also performs regularly with improvisation troupe Impulse Theatre.  Recent screen appearances include feature film “The Stolen” and TV’s “Adam and Eve Show”.

AWARDS

2022 Best Achievement Good Times Comedy Awards

2021 Best marketing nom NZ Fringe

2020 Audience Choice Award Nelson Fringe

2020 Best Solo Show Nelson Fringe

2020 NZ Comedy Guild Awards- nom Breakthrough Comedian SI

2019 Best Lineup Show Comedy Carnival

2019 Spirit of the Fringe Comedy Carnival

2018 3rd South Island RAW Comedy Competition

2018 Roast Battle Champion Dunedin Fringe/ Christchurch